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Pedro Almodóvar: ‘There should be the possibility to have euthanasia all over the world’
The Spanish director’s latest film, The Room Next Door, in which Tilda Swinton plays a journalist with cancer who decides to end her own life, premieres at the Venice film festival
Almodóvar was speaking ahead of the world premiere of his first English language feature, The Room Next Door, which stars Tilda Swinton as a journalist with cancer who decides to end her own life and asks an old friend, played by Julianne Moore, to help. Photograph: Sony Pictures Classics via APSwinton, who previously worked with Almodóvar on 40-minute lockdown short The Human Voice said she was unafraid of her own mortality. The Room Next Door is Almodovar’s 25th film and the followup to Parallel Mothers (2021), which also premiered at Venice and won the festival’s best actress award for Penélope Cruz, Almodóvar’s most frequent on-screen collaborator.
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